The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

the LOS, iild ) of to nits ate , of mis. ,to ates w ii 1 lf" virzts rich !'lie Tile add ollg vCI), of rT,a the t he 1 of P 1 to hcse sFe 9 9; l ' e Lc, of that )tol any -~~ro ) I,cl l btllt PRIVATE AND AU;rIIENTIC COARESrONDENcE. PARIS, DEC. 24. this es a ring blia )E." ~; ~s- ing 5 34 74 )ro• ned cep 5 of ittd ua• arty ate' 1% 11 0 tlig Ad, eV . t•N(' ronl es• diet the [mit kir . tbc Ltar- GO , 111'1 In the last Number of La Minerve is an Article signed E. (ETIENNE), so much superior to the articles generally signed with the same letter, that we have no hesitation in pronouncing, that either the Article is not by M. ETIENNV, or, that • be has made a most rapid progress in tine science of politics and constitutional knowledge, and to "which, doubtless, is to be ascrined the wile adoption of those principles which we have uni formly professed. It would seem, that the force of circumstances, and the real and imminent dan ger of the country, have proditced in itiin this salutary change, and rendered him a Pat riot.ac cording to the Charter. We no longer see him seeking to amuse the part of tbe Ministry which held the scale between the extreme Parties, and which sought, by mild measures, to bring them all tinder the banners of the Constitinion. We now see M. ETIENNE argue on principles without touching on persons, and examine with a force of reasoning, which is in itself a model and an ex ample for political writers. Previously, M. .TIENNE demand. d a liberty, which in France Would have hecOme licentiousness, for he calcu lated on the moderation of Parties, who are every thing in the extreme., and nothing long. lie seemed to wish to set the Parties at variance with each other, instead of conciliating them ; he ap peared to forget, that though the Ultras profes.i, principles contrary to the Charter, and conse *Pettily to Constitutional Liberty, that stilt they Lave their rigots ; that their losses may lmve been the cane of that antipathy which they manifest towards those who liHve gained by their losses. ilumae, nature, in whatever rank (If society we regard it. is, when its vi:al interests are concern ed, nearly t'.e same ; now, no one can contest, that the Nobles were most inignitously deprived of their fortunes (hiring the Revolution, and it Would be too moth to '‹xpect of their descend ants to forget it, and behold them in the posses sion of others wit hot it a murmur, awl wear an empty title withoßt the estate to support it. Some allowances might even be made for their gui!ty excesses, Icor the quo animo in them is the intention to repossess themselves of property of Which they had been most twiastly despoiled, and . they think it no harm to regain it by similar means; they may even without a crime be allowed to blame a Charter which consecrates the alienation of the inheritance of their forefathers; but in making ad these concoions, we confine them strictly t o those whose fortunes and hopes were tnhbed by the Revolut ion. We pity them, but regard, wiiit a very different eye, your CHATCAVBRIANDS, your C'NUELS, and your DoN NADtPUS, who, instead 14 .lasing anything, have taior:d all their importance by the Revolittio,.., and who regard • Ultra-royalism 'as a means, and not as an . end ; and who, if , a RepubliC was es, teulished in what they thought 'solid bases, would s Probably return wit!► as much alacrity to their for , bier principles, as they abandoned them when they found it their interest so to do. If the strogO e for unconstitutional privileges be but a , fatal error in those who have lost them, it is a foul crime in those who never possessed them. Peace to the, cottage, and war to tl►,e castle,' was the criminal cry of the Revolutionists of 1793, end the cry of the upstart Ultras of 1818, of war to the cottage, and peace to the castle, is not less so ; and did not the wisdom 'of Government Watch with vigilance over the Party, the princi pal movers would be the first to fall a sacrifice to the offended laws of popular fury. - The Tagus, 36, Capt. J. W. D. DuNDAs, which arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday from the Medi tei ranean station, left Malta on 13th ,November, .Gibraltar on time 29th, and.Carliz on the 7kh of Deeember Left at Malta the Albion guard-ship (Sir CHARLES PENRosti), aua the Scout, 'refitting. Tbe Ganymtde and Spey were on the coast of Italy ; the Glasgow mid Aid, at Corfu ; .11acehurs, el. Smyrna,' '-'The American squadron was at 1- 1 .1- lertno; the Dutch sqtn.olt on at Mabob ; the Por tuguese squadron at Gibraltar, blockading two 'Tunisians. .At Cadiz, troops were assembling: to .form the Expedition . in SMlth America, un .der General Count O'DoNN ELL ; but there was no prospect of the departure of the fleet for several wet ks—transports could not be pro cured. The Insurgent privateers were very nu merous Off Cadiz ; they lately captured a very tich ship, with treasure, front Lima.—The Tagus sailed fronl Portsmouth yesterday for Deptford, to 'be -paid off: A dispemation hes passed the Great Scal.to en able the BrY. Jrlitst FRA,NCIS, M. A. Chaplain to 'the Earl of DARNLEY, Jo hold the Rectory'of Sr. 'Jtlf!rett's and MI Saints, Catiterbniy, with the Vicarage of ‘Villeshorough, near Ashford, Kent, bvin_g presented to the foinier by the LORD CLAN•‘ Sir T. LAwitENCE, Who is gotie to Vier'na to paint tie portrait v:tf Prince SCHWARTZENEMEG, 10 r the VIIINCE RFGUNT of ENGLAND, Will after- : go to Rome to !mint a' portrait of his Holi fitsft !lit! POPE for his Royal High'ness. 17 1. e lii 't Hon, CHAtiLes LONG gave a grand i litertainenent yesterday to the Ambassador from Netherlands, oud a jiart , of distinction, at his atat, linnutcy FOR THE SUN.' CORN QUESTION. 1111.17,D1r01=,-I'nor reAy insertion 'of my hasty observations ou the Corn QUestiou, encourages me to offer s , mie•forther hinfs upon that very • inte resting ,object, in hopes of their meeting the eve of the MiniNter, and also of the Committee at the King'szlrms, whose patriotic enquiries, I trust, will speed!ly produce some useful suggestions for the consideration of Government. That new Corn Bill will be proposed is evi dent—that the Landed Interest, if they will, can Larry it through both Houses, is equally so-- and that the only safeguard for the Nation will then rest with the PRINCE REGENT'S negative, is as true as it is that inch an alternative ought to he sedulously guarded against Indeed I deprecate most anxiously, Sir, the very agitation of such a Question, being thoroughly convinced that it may, in the very first instance, lead to excesses difficult to repres s , and even when repressed, much to' be deplored. The real question, Sir, is simply this—shall we have large farms, with a surplus population, men dicant, riotous, and emigrating ? or shall we re turn to small, farms, which will, in a reasonable time, clera our kVorkhouses, reduce our. Poors' Rates, furl agricultural la - ;)our for more than dooble the number now employed, bring labour iorward, not as an Assistant to Capital, but as Ca pital itself, permit absolute Capital to find its way into the Commercial and Monied Markets, dimi nish the surplus influx of the destitute to theiMe tropolis, thereby check. the progress of vice, especially of female frailty, and finally, not only restore each species of soil to its proper modes and changes of agricultute, hut increase the ac tual annual produce by a return to the raising of small Stock, to say nothing of the absolute finan cial improvements that must take place from the increased number of families paying taxes, and consuming taxable commodities, thereby invigo rating the H owe Trade, and checking the ten- dency to emigration ? That large farms, previous to the French Re volution, were cotemporary with, and indeed pro ductive of our improvements in Agriculture, can not be denied.• But then these large farms were not numerous ; nor would I prevent the exist ence of all large farms, were it in my power. I Will allow also that the term large is comparative, and that 500 acres in some counties will virtually torn► a larger farm than 1500 in another. B►tt under any system that may be adopted, we shall still have a sufficient number of large farms, and, therefore, if the parallel I have drawn is correct, it behoves us now to encourage the return to small ones ;ciierally, which passing events are, indeed, forcig on us, as the only alternative against Na tional ruin ! A column in a Newspaper is not sufficient for the complete development of a Plan sufficiently extensive to meet the existing evil. I shall, there fore, briefly recommend that a till shall be passed similar to former Ones, for the relief of the Com mercial luteresr, placing from One to Five Mil lions in the hands _of Commissioners ; that in every County a General Committee shall be form ed of the Lit ((tenancy, Magistracy, Clergy, and others, who shall choose a Select Committee to re ceive claims from every Landholder, specifying the particular farms, from 20 acres to 100, or upwards, on which he wishes to raise farts build ings ; that general plans for such buildings shall he adopted, subject to necessary Modifications ; that for every 1001.. which the Landowner en gages to expend, an equal sum shall be lent him, so that even the new-raised bUildings will them selves he security for the tmmey ; that a Clause shall be inserted, taking all such sums so lent out of the jurisdiction of Crown Ex tents, and. placing all Law ProCesses for rccevering under the controul of the County Committees, with such guards as Legal Convey- ancers may point out ; that assistance may even be given •in respect to farming utensils and stock ; and finally, that parishes may borrow for the pur pose of electing cottage's on commons, with small gardens, ami that these shall lee occupied by out pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich, half of whose pensions may be purchased by•Govern merit, the valuation of which will come in as waiter of account veldt the parochial funds—an arrangement of apparent intricacy, but one that may be easily simplified. Such, Sir, are the heads of a,platr,which cannot be productive of evil, and bids fair to be con nuciveto the public good. Your's, IGNOTUS P.S. I cannot conclude without expressing a hope that all persons in the country, who approve of thii proposed plan, will examine its practica bilify in their respective neighbourhoods, and bow far it may be vcquired in each transmitting tb the King's Aims Committee th►e result of. their observAticihs: A bocly'of cvlaenct thus be gathered, tsliiclr WOlllll convince Government of i.ts necessity, and jo'stify the Minister himself in bringing forward measures founded upon the ease in point, in order to smother, at mite, all at tempts at a new Corn SI-lU' NEWS. LYmtNGTotg, Dec. 27.—Arrived his Meiesty's ship Larne from Jamaica, wi!h dispatches for Earl BATHURST and the Admiralty, which were landed here Isom her, The Lamel left Jamaica on the 15th, and Havanna!) on the 25th Nov. WHITBY, DEC. 26.—The schooner Gorgaff Castle, ALLEN, was rim foul of yesterday between Flamborough Head and Scarborough by the For tune, of Arbroath ; the former sunk—crew saved by the latter, which vessel is said to be much da maged, and is now in our Roads, and will come into harbour next title. The weather was foggy. DEC. 27, —The Jonge Eheardiw, MOLDER, from Antwerp to Lotidon, was stranded on the Kentish Knock • on Friday last ;—crew saved by a collier brig, and arrived here. POETMOUTPI, DEC. 27.—Yesterday arrived the Charles, DUPREE, from Bengal for Havre, and passed through for Cowes, out five months. Put back the Hope, LOVE, for London. Today ar rived his Majesty's cutter Vigilant from a cruise. Sailed the Sir George Osborne transport for CORK, Dec.23.—Yesterday evening arrived his Majesty's ship Cyrui to-day arrived four trans ports, with part of the 25th, 39th, and 91st re giments on board, from Portsmouth. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE; DEC. 28. The supply of Wheat from Our own coast be ing much smaller this morning than was expect. ed, that of fine quality sold on full as gfiod terms as on this day week, but there was no demand for Foreign Wheat, of which our Market abounds ; Fine Barley also supports last Monday's prices, but the middling qualities were exceedingly heavy sale, at a decline 'of front is. to 2s. per quarter ; Oats are rather dull sale, in consequence of the magnitude of the supply, both English and Fo reign; in Beans and Pease there is no altetation in prices, but the demand for each was very trifling. Foreign 5.141 IMPORTATIONS LAST WEEK. English. 4,021 .... S.MITIIFIELD, DEC. 29. 7,927 ..:. .. 12,803 .... Wheat Barley Oats 2,255 - 3,118 The show of prime Cattle at this day's market was large, and much business doing, but prices were nominally as last week. The supply of Sheep was 'tolerably large, and pricei of Mutton cheaper than last Friday. Pork was dearer, as also Veal. The business in the Hay Market was somewhat lively, and Hay of fine samples fully maintained our last quotations; Clover has got up in price, and Straw sold at brisk sale, at 2s. per load dearer than Friday..—The annexed is a true statement of the Numbers and Prices at market : (To sink the Offal; per Stone of Sibs.) • Beef 4s. Od. to ss. ud. 1 Veal ss. Od. to 7s. Oil Mutton —ss. Od. to VS,' ~ 4d. I Pork Dd. to 7s. Od CATTLE AT MARKET. Calves . - HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Bensts 2820 Sheep and Lambs .... 14,450 Hay.... £5 00 to ,C 8 00 1 Clover.. k 6 0 oto ,C 9 0 0 Straw ko 12 otO k 3 0 0 A letter from Mr. GEORGE BARTLEY to a friend in Bath, announces the arrival of himself and BARTLEY at New York, on the 15th N,eember, after a most tempestuous voyage. The Lady was about to make her debut in Isabella, and Mr. 'BARTLEY was advert;sed for Falstaff. The crew of the Martnion", - -eighteen - in number (Americans), with Captain CRANSON, their Com mander, attended Divine Service - at the Church of Saint Clement, Ipswich, on Sunday week, {or the purpose of returning thanks to the Almighty for their - deliverance from shipwreck ; a suitable discowse was delivered by the officiaring Minister front the 107th Psalm, 23 and 24 v. The Martnion foist her rudder , and - was otherwise damaged, on the Ship Wash Sands, a short time since. 'She sßiled on her voyage to New Orleans on Tuesday, last. EXTRAORDINARY MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.— in the neighbourhood of this town may he seen, in the garden (Dec. '6), in full bloom, jonquils, narcissuses: hyacinths;anernonies, pinks, stocks, African and French marigolds, the passion flow'ers, 'and Monthly roses, in great perfection, ripe straw berries, and rast.berrie.s. In the fielth and fledges. the sweet-scented violets, heart's ease, purple veteh, red robin, wild strawberry blos,nm, and many others. the o:tk tool the elm retain much of their foliage, and the birds are sometkines heard as in Spring.—(Plyininalt Telegraph.) . Ibe.Floritl4,. Capt. 1 Aw TAY NE, is an i'vcd at Chatham, to he paid °tr. Lieutenant Jack SOll IS ArpOliteti 10 COMII9IIII the Serapis, convalescent .ship, for Jantaicii, vice Lieut. Lancaster. On Sunday last, as .3 Gentleman of Oxford was walking in the l'a'rks, he accident,liy pin tip liera, her akin), ran into llolywt.ll,lunni thence to liroad-s; eet, and into Trini' y where she %.v . as tNko•n alive by the s.ou of tlic ror ct:r 01 LiGoiul (;allege. . WORCESTER, DEc. 25. The Lord Lieutenant of the County, the Earl of COVENTRY, having previously summoned a Meeting of the Nobility, Guntry, Clergy, &c. proposed the following dutiful Address to His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, on the la mented death of her late MAJESTY, observing, that in moving an Address of Condolence to His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, on the la mewed death of her Majesty the QUEEN, he was fully confident there would . be no other 'feelings titan the one which animated hint, in the proposi tion of that Address which he had now the honour of submitting to them. It was unanimously rf , ceived, and most ably seconded by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, who observed, that it ex pressed most fully the sentiments of the County, and was in unison with the loyalty and affection. for which the Lord Li eutenant had ever been so eminently conspicuous. The following is the Ad- dress : The Humble ADDRESS of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of WorcesV, to his Royal High ness the PRINCE REGENT. Sc R,—May it please }our Royal Highness, we, the Nubility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Worcester, most humbly and dutifully beg leave to approach your Royal Highness with our heartfelt sorrow on the loss which the Empire has sustained by the death of your Royal Mother, our late gracious, and universally beloved and lamented Queen. The exemplary life of her Majesty, the severity of sufferings from which she is now happily released, and the reflection that your Royal Highness mitigated those sufferings during the whole of her Majesty's protracted illness, by the muse affectionate regard and unparalleled attentions, cannot but contribute to soothe the feelings of your Royal Highness, under so heavy a deprivation. We will not trespass futther than to intreat your Royal. Highness to accept our sincere condolence, and to express our sense of the exalted virtoes of our late gracious Queen, and the sorrow we feel for the loss the Nation has to deplore. We humbly pray that your• Royal Highness's pious sub mission to the Divine will may enable you to bear this heavy affliction with fortitude, and to resume those arduous func tions which have been so gloriouslyexcrcised, in securing the honour of the British Empire, and in effecting the deliverance of Europe. With et-cry loyal and dutiful sentiment, we subscribe our selt•es your Royal Highness's attached and Devoted Servants, (Signed on behalf of the County Meeting,) SAMUEL WALL, High Shctiff. THE TEIEA FRES. DRITRY•LANII.-After the Tragedy of George Barnwell, landat►ly represented at this time or the year, a new Pawomirne followed, entitled 11 nle pin and the Dandy Club of 18IS.--It wooid be ridiculous to enter into a regular account of a Pantomime, even if children were our only tedd— ers but as our Country Friends may wish for some account of the Plot, we t.cil:e the following report front a Morning Paper : The first scene discovers a number of Dandies dressing, in. whirl) they are interrupted by the appearance of a Gentleman of the old school (Mr. SimPsoN). This occasions much con fusion amongst the Creatures, from which they arc relieved by the appearance of the Genius of Pantomime (Miss HAL, ?ORD), who descends in a cloud, and transforms the Oid Gen tleman to Harlequin, and a Dandy (Mr. H ART LAN D), to Van- . taloon; and the usual bustle and tricks follow. There was a considerable disturbance in the House, occasioned by the attempts of a Gentle than, .whose mind is occasionally subject to dis order in public, to address the audience, and ap parently, to express his disaPprobation of the Pantomime... Many persons endeavoured to pre vent hint from interrupting the Performance, and. BRADBURY, the Clown; had the indecency to double his fist at him in a menacing attitude. The Pantomime, however, Wits announced for this evening. :and when it has been much curtailed, it will'probably be received as usual by the Holiday folks. It is supported by good scenery and toler able music. COVENT-GARDEN.- - - I With the same commend•. able observance of the season in the representa. lion of a play, calculated to operate as a warning up o n youthful minds, the Tragedy of George Barn well, ;also at this Ttieatre preceded a new Panto mime, entitled, Harlequin Alanchausen; or, The Fountain of Lore. The first scene opens with a view of mountains of snow , near Mount Etna. The burning lava 'running down gra dually melts the snow, and dis Covers a village at the base of the mountain.' Baron Munchausan is seen lying 'on the ground, and his horse hanging on the steeple of the village church. Theßai•ou having been previously travelling over the snow, laid down to repose, and fastening his .horse to the vane of the steeple, is by the stublen eruption of the moun tain placed in so singular a situation. I-To is discovered by the villagers, who express surprise, but are still more as tonistied on seeing the Baron bring down his steed from the steeple by a shot, sound both iii wind and limbs. The Baron then mounts and rides away, amidst a chorus sung by the villagers. After, Munchausen and his mistress become Har lupin and Colunthine, and My Lord Humpy Dandy takea the shape_ofCtown, the chase commences in the uoialway, and the lovers piss with true pantomimic velocity, from the Boudoir of Venus, to the. Moon—t he hay of ganstantinoide— the Deck of an English Man of War—the Bo:tom of the Sea—Dahlia Bay—College Green—Waterloo Place—Ptan yev's Pillar—the Perantids of Ga:a—the Fountain of Lore— and to divers other , places, too numerous to mention iiere- Irdthe course of their peregrinations sonic of the party hay% the misfortune to be killed two or tliCee times over, to bu sun„ in the ocean, swallowed by monsters, and burnt to % cinder ; fiut in the end they all present themselves alive and happy, in a magnificent palace, where sorruiv and care are known no unite . . • From general description it will be seen that the present P4ntonihne boasts much variety 'mot splendour. The object seen's 'to have bven to produce a drizzling asaemblagr of heilutitul scenery, (ly GRIEVE, and others), rather than a display of simnel ons tricks. Tile Overture, composed and selected is ap l►rot►riately playful; 'l'l►e vviiole entertainment was iolerably w•tll received, and announced for tevg. tition every - eiciiing till lurtlia notice.